One of my all time favourite music groups has to be Pink Floyd. They are such a huge phenomenon and I don’t really need to write anything about their fan following or their awesome music.

Pink Floyd is what I listen to most of the time while driving to office and back, on the mp3 player in my car.

Earlier this week I wanted to see how long it takes for me to drive to office and back - and what better way to count than the number of Floyd songs I could listen to!

The drive from home to work, had me listening to the following songs -

“Comfortably Numb” (6:23)
“Coming Back to Life” (6:56)
“High Hopes” - (7:51) - I reached my office when only half the song was up, so I waited in my car at the parking lot till this song got over. I couldn’t get myself to press the ‘off’ button before that!

While returning traffic was slightly heavy so I took longer (~25 minutes) than the roughly 17 minutes morning drive, but I generally enjoy driving to music, so I was comfortably numb in traffic indeed!

“Keep Talking” (6:53)
“Wish You Were Here” (6:35)
“Learning to Fly” (4:53)
“Cluster One” (5:58)

I sometimes actually wish that I stayed further away from the office, so that I can listen to more music while driving! But then again…it’s such a relief to get back home so quickly.

On a sad note, David Gilmour has recently said that Pink Floyd will not be performing together anymore. The Live 8 concert with Roger Waters is to be their last performance together. Read more here and here

The only Pink Floyd concert I got to attend (and now ever will) was the Roger Waters - In The Flesh Tour way back on 13th April 2002 in Bangalore and that was simply the best concert I have attended so far. People poured into Bangalore from all corners of the country to attend the show and I also remember a certain cousin and a huge Floyd fan himself come down just for the show from Warangal! A truely great experience!